They’ve never been our ally in any meaningful way. They used nuclear blackmail against Nixon to bail themselves out when they lost the Yom Kippur war. They blew up the USS Liberty and machine gunned my great uncle in the water. And they were literally the reason for 9/11, straight from the mouth of bin laden.
How much aid money did they send us after 9/11?
But a CVS burned down!!
Are they settlers? Then they aren’t in Israel and they should be considered international criminals.
Any settler that leaves Israel should be arrested by any civilized country. Treat them the same as terrorists.
And if it always has been, than why were the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, all violence free? Why was there heated debate between the two sides, but not violence? What’s changed now?
This is the most straight white comment ever. Most of those decades still had lynchings. And why are you ignoring the '60s while looking back at our history? Seems like you don’t want to look at that decade specifically. The reality is that conservatives have been murdering liberals for as long as this country has been around. Even people as conservative as West Virginia coal diggers were massacred by conservatives using police and the pinkertons for being just liberal enough to believe in getting paid fairly.
I think it’s a bad take to pretend that people who served in the military and can still be called up for service are regular civilians. Or civilians whatsoever really.
I would support those people getting individual exceptions. Also the people who are excluded from the draft because of the racism.
Maybe it would be easier for me to say that I just think everybody who ever served in the IDF should be banned from other countries.
“how much sense would it make blocking black citizens of SA from visiting your country -simply because they live under apartheid?”
What kind of tortured logic is this? Nobody is saying we’re going to block the Palestinians from traveling anywhere. Only the perpetrators, not the victims.
Israel doesn’t have regular citizens because of their national draft. Just complicit people, settlers, and people who don’t have to serve because Israel is racist.
Not the ones in power for the most part. An interesting historical fact is that Zionism didn’t really take off in terms of Europeans headed to Palestine until a few years after sunscreen was invented.
Of course they have to go out of their way to not explicitly name Israel or its military. Because then people might remember that Israel’s military consists of 70% of its citizens, excluding the ones that don’t have to serve because Israel is openly racist. Nobody ever seems to want to talk about how 70% of Israelis either have abused Palestine, continue to abuse Palestine, or will abuse Palestine in the future. That’s like fascist government 101, make the teenagers become complicit in your crimes and they’ll never vote to be punished. And because they’ll never vote to be punished, we get netanyahu over and over.